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Is there a way to pass options to node when invoking ts-node? I am trying to use an experimental feature in node and it would be swell if it would work with ts-node.

This is currently what I am doing:

ts-node ./src/utils/repl.ts -- --experimental-repl-await
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    [My answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/54695790/157247), which is currently the accepted one, was wrong. [Sam's answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/58667373/157247) is correct. I suggest switching the accepted mark to that answer (if you do, please ping me so I can delete the wrong one -- I can't delete it while it's accepted). – T.J. Crowder Feb 05 '20 at 17:34

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I got it to work this way:

node --experimental-repl-await -r ts-node/register ./src/utils/repl.ts

From the ts-node documentation:

Note: If you need to use advanced node.js CLI arguments (e.g. --inspect), use them with node -r ts-node/register instead of the ts-node CLI.

Another way to do it is to use the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable. For instance, in a *nix-style shell:

NODE_OPTIONS=--experimental-repl-await ts-node ./src/utils/repl.ts
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